Recent content by inertiat

Cheers, RAID 10 isn't an option for me, I only have 4 SATA ports (I'll learn my lesson next time I buy a new motherboard) plus its freaking expensive. Raw power is basically it :) The 500Gb 7200.12s are all on one platter; would I be right in assuming the 1Tb drives are on 2 platters? If so...

Hmmm decisions decisions. I'm not really fussed about RAID 5 or 0+1 because I'm getting a large external backup drive with daily auto backup, plus I have another drive to back up that drive so I'm covered in that area. I'm just going for raw speed. But I need to choose if I want a load of...

Sounds an idea, but if I do that will the fact that I have 2 partitions slow it down? Would it be faster for me to have 2 RAIDs of 2 drives - one for OS and one for data - as opposed to one large RAID partitioned?

Thanks for the answer

Would that decrease performance seeing as the RAID would have to be dealing with lots of little OS processes as well as a long media encoding process?

I'm going to be using this setup for video editing and encoding: 1x HDD for OS and program files 3x HDDs in RAID 0 for documents My question is, if I have my video editing apps on the single HDD (Premiere Pro and After Effects) and work on files which are on the RAID array and encode...

Cheers, are these things reliable? I've heard less than stellar things about WD drives

I'm looking to buy a 7,200RPM 3.5" internal Hard Drive for my desktop; I need 1Tb. I'm doing media and video encoding so it has to be fast and reliable. I'm stuck between a Spinpoint and a Barracuda. I've seen mixed reviews on which is the fastest seek/ throughput so can anyone give me some...

I have a 5.1 speaker setup for my PC, but the sound keeps fading/ getting louder intermittently. It must be the speakers as I never have this problem with headphones (tried several pairs and no probs). I don't know much about speakers, so does anyone know what it might be and if its fixable? If...

You my friend are an absolute genius/ life saver! Why I'm doing this is because I keep getting the dreaded "display adapter nvlddmkm stopped responding" crash which has made everything unplayable. I've tried every other method under the sun and this was my last resort, and it seems to have...

Hi, I need someone with a bit of time on their hands to type out all the timing and other settings I need to put into my BIOS to underclock my 800Mhz RAM to 667Mhz. Basically just a list of "make that x value" because I'm trying out something and need somewhere to start. Many thanks to...

Hi, I've noticed a lot of GFX card reviews are done with Vista Business 64 and not Home Premium 64. Is there a special reason for this to do with performance or special features? If both are 64-bit then surely the performance should be the same? Thanks

Wondering if anyone can give me a hand. I'm looking for a manual fan speed controller like this that will work with a Freezer 7 Pro on an ASUS P5N-D. I don't think the Zalman Fan Mate will work because it only has a 3-pin connector (the motherboard connect is a 4-pin) and I'm not sure if the...

Hi, Does anyone know of a good wireless USB network adapter which will definately work with XP Pro 64? It has to be a USB adapter because my 2 GTs are taking up all the space on my motherboard. The only solution to that would be to remove my sound card but I really don't want to do that...

Cheers. Yeah I think I'll leave the OCZ stuff then. It's my first build so I just want everything to go smoothly. I'm dreading powering on my PC when I've hooked everything up - what if it doesn't work! lol ahwel it should be a fun prject anyways. Thanks for the advice